16/16 - Late Last Night I Heard The Screen Door Slam

After two years in the basement of the Laurie Grove Baths I moved out of my studio last week. Can't help but feel a bit melancholic. And then UK went and screwed up royally just a few days later. So here I am, with an amazing view of London during an intense install week and feeling pangs of sadness and desperation as soon as my energy drains...

Alexis Taylor - In the Light of the Room

To my classmates from the top of the Ben Pimlott building.

In the light of the room
Through a window dappled
I was dreaming of you
and of all that's happened

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone?

Britain on the morning after Brexit...

Natalie Prass - My Baby Don't Understand Me

Our love is a long goodbye...

Erykah Badu - ...& On

Anyway. Gotta keep on. And on. And on. Water in your cereal, Badu in your stereo, degree show coming up!

Papa Lightfoot - When the Saints Go Marchin' In

15/16 - Let Me Sleep Til Great Dawn Is Breaking

The timeless ones.

Count Basie ft. Jimmy Rushing - Evenin'

I'd almost forgotten about Jimmy Rushing. He was one of the house saints of my first flat after moving out of my parents' flat. We used to listen to his amazing recordings with Duke Ellington at least once every party. One of the most likeably voices ever. He was the man, and I'm glad he's come back to visit me again.

Louis Armstrong - A Monday Date

Yeeas.... that sounds pretty goood...

I wish I lived among people who could use the phrase 'C'mon Pops' in a non-corny way. But maybe Louis was the only one.

Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader

Kind of Blue in the speakers in the metal workshop, and suddenly all your messing around seems kind of noble, and you're proud to be a creative.

Duke Ellington - A Little Max (Parfait)

One of those tunes that remain hidden in between other tracks until suddenly random iTunes throws it at you in lone majesty and you're awestruck by all its little details.

Freddie Wadling - Ensam På Havet

So, last week Freddie died. Major profile in my hometown and a timeless, unique voice. Often when you were at some other band's gig or just a clandestine party somewhere, he would sit there on a chair in a corner, leaning on his cane, and you would gaze with veneration, knowing what power his body contained.  It feels like Gothenburg won't be the same town next time I go home. Here he is, on his last record, singing one of my favourite Swedish tunes, by another of my favourite Swedish oddballs; Stina Nordenstam. 2016 is a sad year for music. One by one the lights go out...

Inatt går vi utan lanternor

14/16 - My Thoughts Are Misguided And A Little Naïve

Time for some fuzz on top 5. Not been enough distortion lately.

Radiohead - Myxomatosis

First off, I went to see Radiohead live for the 11th time last week. As so often before, this rant about rabbit-plague was an absolute highlight. Not made worse by being followed by a top notch rendition of Idioteque of course. If you've never seen Radiohead live, well... there's no way to describe it. And there's nothing to top it.

Kyuss - Gardenia

This is the kind of guitar sound that propels me forward in the workshops, among PVA, flexiply and vermiculite.

The Smashing Pumpkins - Silverfuck

Remembering a time when one used to be able to respect Billy Corgan. When that vicious guitar tone was a mainstay of our teenage house parties.

Rage Against the Machine - Revolver

Once on a teenage revival kick, why not go all the way and revisit one of the bestest of all guitar riff albums? And it's aged well. 4:52 never ceases to slay.

Rage Against the Machine - Microphone Fiend

I kinda got stuck on RATM this week. Their covers are pretty ace too.